(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 2, 1972. This story was written by Robert Byrne.) REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer of Brooklyn is world chess champion, the first A… ...

Fischer certainly got attention back then, but information was filtered very differently than today. Journalists used to lead the way, rather than slavishly follow the flow of superficial Internet ...

Bobby Fischer will remain the name in chess that people who don’t know chess do know. ... “Is He the Next Bobby Fischer?” the Wall Street Journal wondered about 12-year-old Jorge Zamora in 1991.

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Bobby Fischer was such an iconic American player that many a freshman dorm room has been decorated with ... Well to answer that, you have to go back to the '70s.

B oris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

Back in his hotel room he sat with five grandmasters, tracing and retracing his moves. He went through them one by one, until they said, "Bobby, that's everyone. There's no one left to play." ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.